Improvement in iviatch-boxes



THEQDORE CROMMELIN. Match Box. -No.124,88.6.

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Patented March 26, I872.

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THEODORE GROMMELIN, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YOR'K.

, IWIPROVEMENT IN MATCH-BOXES.

I, THEODORE OROMMELIN, of the city of Brooklyn, county of Kings andState of New York, have invented certain Improvements in Boxes forContaining Matches, of which the following is a specification:

at the same time to have a convenient box for matches.

This object I accomplish by making one side or flange of the box higherthan the other, which higher side I penetrate with holes for the nail orother fastening. The box-can thus be easily secured at the side of anywindowframe or doorjamb without being fastened to the wall. I make twokinds of these boxes, one with the right flange or side higher than theleft flange or side, and the other with the. left flange or side higherthan the right flange or side-the former to be used on the left sideofjambs, and the latter to be used on the right side of jambs, or asconvenience may require.

In the drawing, Figure No. 1 represents the front view of my box madewith the left flange or side b higher than the right. A side view ofthis box is shown by Fig. No. 2, the holes in the side or flange for thefastening being shown in this figure by the numbers 1, 2, and'3.

The dotted lines a in Fig. N o. 1 represent the construction of a boxwith the right flange or side 01 higher than the left flange or side.

These boxes can be made of wood, metal, or other suitable material. L inthe figures represents the lid of the box.

Therefore, whatI claim as my invention, and what I desire to secure byLetters Patent of the United States, is

A match-box, made with either side or flange b or at higher than theother, which higher side is penetrated with holes for the nail or otherfastening.

TREADWELL CLEVELAND, SIDNEY HUESTON.

